The Nixon effect : how Richard Nixon's presidency fundamentally changed American politics /
The Nixon Effect examines the 37th president's political legacy in broad-ranging ways that make clear, for the first time, the breadth and duration of his influence on American political life. The book argues that Nixon is the key political figure in postwar American politics in multiple ways,...
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New York :
Encounter Books,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: walking in Nixon's shadow
- Section I. The Nixon record
- The domestic policy pragmatist
- The foreign policy visionary
- Section II. The Nixon influence
- Nixonizing the Republicans; Part One: the southern strategy and the silent majority
- Nixonizing the Democrats; Part One: stealing the domestic center from liberals
- Nixonizing the Republicans; Part Two: the conservative revolt
- Nixonizing the Democrats; Part Two: Vietnam, McGovern, and the end of national-security liberalism
- Triangulation redux: how Bill Clinton became a Nixon heir
- They didn't listen to Nixon: foreign policy and polarization under Bush and Obama
- Section III. The Nixon legacy
- Watergate and the end of bipartisan politics
- Nixon's final comeback: the postpresidency
- Afterword: Nixon in 2016.